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Merle Huerta, an army chaplain's wife, is the mother of a blended family of thirteen children. During her husband's combat deployments, she co-authored articles appearing in the Jerusalem Post and National Review. She has a Master�s from Columbia University in Instructional Media and Technology and a Certificate in Nonfiction from The Writers Institute at CUNY. She lives at the U.S. Military Academy in New York. "Tuesday Mornings" is her first solo publication.
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Writing Prompt: Mothering My Writing
By Merle Huerta
May 8, 2010
Each month, we post a writing prompt tied to the current month's essay.
Please email your responses of 500 words or less to lmreflections (at) literarymama (dot) com
with the words "writing prompt" in the subject line so that we know it's not an essay submission.
Submissions should be in the text of an email (please do not send attachments).
We will accept responses until the 15th of each month and offer our feedback
on each response privately before the end of the month. We hope you'll take
this opportunity to get inspired, share your work, and find community with other
writers! We'll post our favorites on our blog.
In this month's essay, Jeanine DeHoney vividly recalls the habits of the woman she called "Evelyn" but lovingly referred to as "mom." She writes, "I wrote about the bright red nail polish she loved, the way she always chewed Wrigley's spearmint gum, and how she made lists of everything she could think of, from actors who won the Oscars to ingredients in her favorite recipes."
If you could profile your mother, what salient features would you include -- her smell; her habits; her laugh? What did you love about her? What did you hate? What part of her is within you and obvious when you parent your own children?
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